Shoutbox

Hi I have this problem whereby some of my contacts' recently updated messages are not displayed on my windows live messenger. However, under the "What's new" tab on the bottom I can see that their personal messages have been updated. In fact one of them recently updated his personal message as recently as 1 day ago. Another thing that I noted was whenever I'm online they appear offline on my contact list. I'm hesitant to guess that I've been blocked because I've not logged on to my msn for at least 2 months, I've only logged on a few days ago and each session wasn't very long. Is there a reason why they are not displaying the personal message as it should appear?

Besides this, I've been wondering about another display issue for the longest time. I've got some contacts which I haven't talked to for the longest time (at least a few months) In place of their "name" their email is displayed in my messenger window.

However for the aforementioned problems, the tools>options>privacy check indicates I haven't been deleted off their contact list. So does anyone know what gives?